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John, 100, insists spending time with 95-year-old Bridget and his family has brought him the greatest joy of his long life.

The happy couple married in Edeninfagh, Co Donegal, on February 15, 1944, when Douglas Hyde was still serving as the first President of Ireland.

They tied the knot four months before the D-Day invasion by Allied troops, which signalled the end of World War II.

John, who still farms the land beside their home in Meenalargan, Glenties, and only stopped driving two years ago, told the Irish Mirror yesterday: “It’s a wonderful achievement. We met in a wee dancehall out in Kilraine outside Glenties two years before we got married.

“I would live on dancing and I was very fond of it.

“I asked Bridget out to dance, the boy asked the girl out that time.

“I met her just before Lent and there wasn’t many dances on around that time so it was a long Lent then [waiting to see her].”